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Petrographic sample: Hakotel 013

Jerusalem, Old City/East Je...

14th - 15th c. CE

Cooking vessel

Israel-Palestinian Authorit...

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Cooking/Food production

Description

The fabric is a reddish and slightly optically active marl/dolomite/motza, single-double spaced, and silty with ~15% voids. The non-plastic inclusions are: 10% sub-rounded to rounded shale/opaque minerals (50-800 μm), 20% rhomboid dolomite (30-120 μm), 5% sub-angular to rounded calcareous concretions/limestone (40-450 μm), 5% sub-angular to rounded mudstone (80-850 μm), some: rounded foraminifera (30-100 μm), angular quartz (20-50 μm).,

Thin Section Photos  1


Cooking vessel
Jerusalem
14th - 15th c. CE
Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk

Break Photos  0

Vessel Images  0

Petrographic Sample

Western Galilee (?) /

Shale/opaque minerals, dolomite, calcareous concretions, limestone, mudstone

Local group 5a/1d (Gabrieli et al 2014)

Motza marl

Associated Ware/Ware Family

10th c. - 20th c. CE

Middle-Late Islamic/Mamluk, Later Islamic - Fatimid/Mamluk, Ottoman, Ottoman